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BRIS-T-LE HOLDER.

No. 328,063. Patented Oct. 13, 1885.

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LOFTUS PRICE, OF NEW LOTS, ASSIGNOR TO MILES BROTHERS 8t 00., OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

BRlSTLE-HOLDER.

SFECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,063, dated October 13, 1885.

Application filed May 1884. Serial No. 110,193.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOFTUS E. PRICE, of the town of New Lots, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bristle-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

' My invention has relation to an improved device for holding bristles during the process of manufacturing brushes; and the object of my said invention is to provide a simple, cheap, durable, and easily-operating implement, whereby the bristles may be held in convenient position for affixing them upon the brush-head, which will facilitate the an rangement of the bristles preparatory to affixing them, and enable the brush-maker to complete the mounting of the brush more easily and rapidly than by the ordinary process heretofore in vogue.

To this end my improvement involves certain novel and useful principles of operation, relative arrangements or combinations of parts, and details of construction, all of which will be herein first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a horizontal section, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a crosssection, of an implement constructed and arranged for operating in accordance with my invention and involving the principles thereof. Fig. 4 is a side elevation, and Fig. 5 a cross-section, showing the improved holder with the bristles mounted therein ready to be affixed to the brushhead. Fig. 6 is a side elevation, and Fig. 7 a central cross-section,of the brush-head. Fig. 8 is a plan of the completed brush, showing a metallic or other band which is used to finally secure the bristles and protect their butts.

In all these figures like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts.

Heretofore in the manufacture of the general form of brushes indicated in the drawings, the operator usually tacked one end of a strap to the head, then laid a bunch of bristles on one side, stretched the strap across (No model.)

them, and secured it by a tack, distributing the bristles under the strap more or less evenly, and proceeded to tack the strap at short intervals between the previously-secured points. All this required skill in handling, arranging, and distributing the bristles. The turning and filling of the ends involved loosening of the straps, and the further difficult arrangement and distribution of the bristles in order to fill the second side, requiring always that the tacking be proceeded with by the skilled operator, and much care on his part to keep the butt-ends of the bristles always even while the other work was progressing. I greatly simplify the manufacture of brushes by use of my improved implement.

A represents the main body of the holder, to the ends of which are applied suitable straps of leather or other material, (represented at B.) These are each secured at one end, as by tacks a a, and at the other end by a pin, 1), entering an eyelet in the strap, so that each strap may be readily detached at one end to receive the bristles and then be properly secured, so as to hold them in place. The body of the holder is made slightly inclined on both sides, so that the butts of the bristles will spread apart, as shown in Fig. 5.

D is the brush-head, the same having a ledge all around, as at 0, against which the bristles abut. The head upon which the bristles are mounted is preferably inclined slightly, as in Fig. 7.

To use the implement, the bristles are located and held beneath the straps B B. A slight tap on the bench brings the. butts in proper place, and they are then dippedin suitable cement and adjusted upon the brushhead so as to bear against ledge o. The width of the mass of bristles in the holder is somewhat greater than the projecting part of the brush-head, in order to provide bristles enough to wrap around the ends thereof.

They are gathered around either by hand or by clamps or wires, or in any way, and are finally secured by a metallic or other band, as at E. The band E may be continuous, in which case it is slipped down over the flag ends of the bristles after the holder has been removed; or the band may be made of a strip simply tacked around before or after the removal of the holder. The row of tacks (I pass through the bristles and into the projecting part of the head, thereby holding the bristles firmly in place. Another row, 6, of fewer numbers, suffices to hold the band down firmly on ledge c.

The bristles may be arranged Within the holders by any person and the tacking afterward accomplished by the same or by another, thus obviating the necessity of skilled labor in the manufacture.

In making up any considerable number of the brushes a number of the holders are intended to be employed, these being filled and refilled as the work progresses. Their employment enables me to furnish the brushes more rapidly and more economically than can be done by the old process above alluded to.

The strips or'str a'ps B are usually of leather, but may be of any other suitable material.

The body A, instead of being made in one piece, may be divided, as along the line x w or along the line 3 y of Fig. 1, or'in any other suitable manner, the parts to be united or the longitudinal divisions to be used separately, if desired.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described holder for bristles, the same being composed of a body and strips or straps thereon applied for maintaining the bristles in place, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bristle-holder of the character herein set forth, the body having inclined sides and the strips or straps on each side, said strips being secured at one end, arranged to be released at the other, and adapted to hold the bristles, the parts being combined and arranged substantially as shown, and for the purposes set .forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

LOFTUS E. PRICE.

\Vitnesses:

EMIL SoHInLLEIN, JOHN VATH. 

